Sathya Baba
Sathya Baba
Indian guru who was known for claiming that he was the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi and as a supposed miracle worker.
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth28 November 1926
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Everyone seeks to know what good he can derive from other individuals or from society.
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Everyone goes about trying to see what he can get from society.
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No attempt should be made to belittle Society and benefit only the family, for, it is bound to fail.
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Society is our primary concern. The Divine is manifest in society.
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Offer service and receive love. This is the recipe for experiencing Divinity. Our love should not be confined to our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the family to society as a whole, then to the nation at large and finally embrace the whole world.
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A society has to be welded into a unit by the consciousness of kinship in God.
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No one asks himself what good or benefit society derives from him. Start by rendering benefit to society.
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Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it.Â
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In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge, when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that, he has to serve the Guru and obey him, without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth, he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security; he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care; he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time, he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.
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We owe everything to society and should be grateful to society for all that we receive from it. We have to repay this debt by helping at least as many people as we can.
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When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.Â
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It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.
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Human society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes.
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Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.